A dwarf shrublet forming mats or cushions up to c. 200 mm high, old branches woody, decumbent, nude, rooting, branch-lets closely grey-woolly, densely leafy, becoming nude and remotely leafy upwards. Leaves up to 12 x 1,5 mm, smaller and more distant upwards, linear, apex obtuse, apiculate, base broad, half-clasping, marÂgins strongly re volute, upper surface thinly grey-woolly, lower densely white-woolly. Heads homogamous, c. 3 x 1 mm, cylindric, many in compact cymose clusters 10—15 mm across at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in 2—4 series, graded, closely imbricate, outer tipped pale brown, inner bright canary-yellow, about equalling flowÂers, not radiating. Receptacle with pit margins slightly produced. Flowers 2—5, yellow. Achenes 0,75 mm, with duplex hairs. Pappus wanting. Fig. 15: 3.
